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Thomas Hertog

Belgian cosmologist and former collaborator of Professor Stephen Hawkingborn 1975

Supervised 13 doctoral students; Wikidata names Stephen Hawking as doctoral advisor. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 6 other registers.

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Students13

cited by a thesis record
Ludovico Machet “Gravitational wave signatures of dark matter environments”
2026 · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Algot Joel Karlsson “Precision Quantum Cosmology”
2026 · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Simon Maenaut “Finding the ringdown of rotating black holes in higher-derivative gravity”
2025 · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Vincent Van Hemelryck “Throat phenomena and scale separation in flux compactifications”
2023 · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Lorenzo Küchler “Inspiral, transition and plunge: a framework for complete waveforms in the small-mass-ratio expansion”
2023 · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Kwinten Fransen “Exploring black holes with gravitational waves”
2022 · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Vincent Min “Holography in String Theory”
2020 · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Gerben Venken “Quantum gravity aspects of de Sitter space”
2020 · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
B. Truijen “Dynamics of Branes and Fluxes”
2018 · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Gabriele Conti “Holographic wave functions of the universe”
2017 · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Ruben Monten “De Sitter Space and Holography”
2017 · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Yannick Vreys “Beyond Classical Cosmology with the No-Boundary Wave Function”
2017 · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Ellen van der Woerd “Quantum Cosmology: From model building to prediction making”
2016 · doctoral

Advisors on Wikidata1

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Stephen Hawking

The line above and below4 steps

The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

1 step up
stated by WikidataStephen Hawking
2 steps up
stated by WikidataDennis W. Sciama
3 steps up
stated by WikidataHarold Neville Vazeille Temperleystated by WikidataHermann Bondistated by WikidataPaul Dirac
4 steps up
stated by WikidataArthur Eddingtonstated by WikidataHarold Jeffreysstated by WikidataRalph H. Fowler

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 13 people: 13 cited by thesis records.

Theses

stated by Wikidata
The origin of inflation
doctoral thesis, stated by Wikidata

Education and career2

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undated
University of Cambridge
studied
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Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
worked

At a glance

known as: physicist, university teacher, author
fields: theoretical physics, quantum physics, superstring theory, cosmology
awards: Prize of the Flemish Scientific Foundation, 2015
Wikipedia: in 5 languages

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identity

stated by WikidataWikipediaThomas Hertog
stated by WikidataWikidataQ2134113
cited by a thesis recordORCID0000-0002-9021-5966stated by Wikidata · on their thesis record at KU Leuven Lirias
stated by WikidataVIAF4577153472524645360001
stated by WikidataGND1284730417
stated by WikidataISNI0000000507280321

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lineage

stated by WikidataMathematics Genealogy Project112216

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Read on 28 October 2026. A citation names the day the record was read, not a version.

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@misc{academicancestry_Q2134113,
  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{Thomas Hertog: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q2134113},
  note = {read on 2026-10-28}
}

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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 28). Thomas Hertog: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-28]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q2134113